Stewart Cink

AUSTIN, Texas (AP) — Everyone around him was telling Jason Day to withdraw from the Dell Match Play and not risk further injury to his back.

Day knew he was playing well enough to win and wanted to stick it out.

The decision paid off in more ways than he could imagine.

Day returned to No. 1 in the world by making it to Sunday. It felt even sweeter when he beat Rory McIlroy in an epic semifinal, and then beat Louis Oosthuizen in a championship match so one-sided that it might as well have been a victory lap around Austin Country Club.

"I'm glad I didn't listen," Day said. "I wanted to win. I wanted to win so bad that I felt with how I was playing,...

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